One 77-year-old’s search for the truth: 9/11, election fraud, illegal wars, Wall Street criminality, a stolen nuke, the neocon wars, control of the U.S. government by global corporations, the unjustified assault on Social Security, media complicity, and the "Great Recession" about to become the second Great Depression. "The most important truths are hidden from us by the powerful few who strive to steal the American dream by keeping We the People in the dark."

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The government lies. The mainstream media repeats these lies. If We The People can't find the truth, then we -- and the entire earth -- are in deep trouble. Paul Craig Roberts: "The only advice I can give is that when you hear the presstitute media smear a concern or explanation as 'conspiracy theory,' have a closer look."

To inform people is hard slugging. Everything is lined up
against the public being informed, or the policymakers for that matter.
News is contaminated by its service to special interests and hidden
agendas. Many scientists or their employers are dependent on federal
money. Even psychologists and anthropologists were roped into the
government's torture and occupation programs. Economists tell lies for
corporations and Wall Street. Plant and soil scientists tell lies for
agribusiness and Monsanto. Truth tellers are slandered and persecuted.
However, persistence can eventually win out. In the long-run, truth
sometimes emerges. But not always. And not always in time.

I have been trying to inform the American people, economists, and
policymakers for more than a decade about the adverse impacts of jobs
offshoring on the US economy. The word has eventually gotten out. Last
week I was contacted by 8th grade students competing for their school in
CSPAN's StudentCam Documentary Contest. They want to interview me on
the subject of jobs offshoring for their documentary film.

America is a strange place. Here are eighth graders far ahead of the
economics profession, the President, the Congress, the Federal Reserve,
Wall Street, and the financial press in their understanding of one of
the fundamental problems of the US economy. Yet, people say the public
schools are failing. Obviously, not the one whose students contacted me.

Is it too late? I know much, but not all. So this is not the final
word. I think it might be too late. When skilled jobs are sent abroad,
the skills disappear at home. So do the supply chains and the businesses
associated with the skills. Things close down, and abilities are lost.
Why take a major in college for a job that is offshored? A culture
disappears.

But we can start them back up, right? Perhaps not. When a First World
country exports its technology and know-how abroad to a Third World
country in order to benefit from lower cost labor, how does the First
World country get the work back? Living standards and the cost of living
in Third World countries are much lower than in First World countries.
The populations of First World countries cannot pay their mortgages, car
payments, student loans, medical care, and grocery bills with the wages
of Third World countries.

When First World wages drop, mortgage, car, credit card, and student
loan payments do not drop. Americans cannot live on Chinese, Indian, and
Indonesian wages. Once the technology and know-how is transferred, the
low-wage country has the advantage in the absence of tariff protection.

For America to revive, our economy would have to be walled off with
high tariffs, and subsidies would have to be provided in order to
recreate US industry and manufacturing. But many corporations now
produce offshore, and America is broke. The government has been $1
trillion dollars in the hole each year for the last 5 years.

Jobs offshoring diminished the US tax base. When a job is sent
abroad, so is that job's contribution to US GDP and tax base. When
millions of jobs are sent abroad, US GDP and tax base cannot support
government spending levels. To the extent that there are any replacement
jobs, they are in lowly paid domestic services, such as waitresses,
bartenders, retail clerks, and hospital orderlies. These jobs do not
provide a tax base or consumer spending power comparable to
manufacturing jobs and tradable professional services such as software
engineering and information technology.

Republicans and increasingly Democrats, as both parties are dependent
on the same sources of campaign contributions, blame "entitlements." By
entitlements they mean welfare.

In fact, entitlements consist of Social Security and Medicare.
Entitlements are funded by the payroll tax, approximately 15% of
payroll. The fact that a person pays the payroll tax all his working
life is why the person is entitled to Social Security and Medicare if
they live to retirement age. Welfare, such as food stamps and housing
subsidies, are a small part of the federal budget and are not
entitlements.

Every since President Reagan was betrayed three decades ago by Alan
Greenspan and David Stockman, both of whom sold out to Wall Street and
raised the Social Security payroll tax above what was needed to pay
Social Security benefits in order to protect Wall Street's stock and
bond portfolios from exaggerated deficit fears, Social Security payroll
tax revenues have exceeded Social Security payments. As of today, Social
Security revenues exceed payments to beneficiaries by an accumulated $2
trillion. The money was used by the federal government to pay for its
wars and other spending programs. The Social Security Trust Fund holds
non-marketable IOUs from the Treasury. These IOUs can only be made good
from an excess of tax revenues over expenditures or by the Treasury
selling $2 trillion in bonds, notes, and bills and paying off its IOUs
to the Social Security Trust Fund. This is not going to happen.

The Federal Reserve could not care less about the US population. The
Fed was established for the purpose of protecting and aiding banks.
Currently, the Fed, as if America were a Banana Republic which America
appears to be becoming, is printing one thousand billion dollars per
year in order to support the banks and to finance the federal deficit.

This is bad news for Americans, as it means that their fiat money is
being created at a far greater rate than the demand for the dollar. The
implication for our future is a drop in the dollar's value. As there are
no jobs, a drop in the dollar's value means high inflation on top of
unemployment and double the misery of the Great Depression.

As bad as this is, it is minor compared to the destruction of the
planet's environment. Online information shows that the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem is in crisis after the BP spill and use of Corexit, a dispersant used to hide, not clean up, the spilled oil.

The Fukushima catastrophe has hardly begun. Yet already the
radioactive water pouring into the Pacific Ocean has made fish dangerous
to eat unless a person is willing to accept a higher risk of cancer.

Fukushima has the potential of making Japan uninhabitable and of
polluting the air, water, and soil of the US with radioactivity. Yet the
crisis is seldom mentioned in the US media. In Japan the government
just passed a law that could be used to imprison Japanese journalists
who report truthfully on the dire situation.

Take the time to familiarize yourself with the online information
about Fukushima... According to the presstitute media, Americans face
threats from Iran and Syria and from whistleblowers such as Edward
Snowden. The real threats are simply not in the news.

If you search Fukushima, you will find information that the presstitute media hides from you. See here for example.

There are a number of other threats to the environment on which our
lives depend. One is the effort to extract more productivity from the
soil by use of GMOs. Monsanto has altered the genes of several crops so
that the crops can be sprayed with RoundUp to eliminate weeds. The
results have been to deplete the soil of nutrients, to destroy the
micro-biology of the soil so that new plant diseases and funguses are
activated, and to produce superweeds that require heavier doses of the
glyphosate in RoundUp. The heavier dose of RoundUp worsens the
aforementioned problems. US agricultural soil is losing its potency.

Some describe chemtrails as a plot by the New World Order, the
Rothchilds, the Bilderbergers, or the Masons, to wipe out the "useless
eaters." Given the amount of evil that exists in the world, these
conspiracy theories might not be as farfetched as they sound.

However, I do not know that. What does seem to be possibly true is
that the scientific experiments to modify and control weather are having
adverse real world consequences. The claim that aluminum is being
sprayed into the atmosphere and when it comes to earth is destroying the
ability of soil to be productive might not be imaginary. Those
concerned about chemtrails say that weather control experiments have
deprived the western United States of rainfall, while sending the rain
to the east where there have been hurricane level deluges and floods.

In the West, sparse rainfall and lightening storms without rain are
resulting in forests drying out and burning down. Deforestation
adversely affects the environment in many ways, including the process of
photosynthesis by which trees convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. The
massive loss of forests means more carbon dioxide and less oxygen.
Watershed and species habitat are lost, and spreading aridity further
depletes ground and surface water. If these results are the consequences
of weather modification experiments, the experiments should be stopped.

In North Georgia where I spend some summers, during 2013 it rained
for 60 consecutive days, not all day, but every day, and some days the
rainfall was 12 inches -- hurricane level -- and roads were washed out. I
received last summer four automated telephone warnings from local
counties not to drive and not to attempt to drive through accumulations
of water on the highways.

One consequence of the excess of water in the East is that this year
there are no acorns in North Georgia. Zilch, zero, nada. Nothing. There
is no food for the deer, the turkeys, the bear, the rodents. Starving
deer will strip bark from the trees. Bears will be unable to hibernate
or will be able only to partially hibernate, forced to seek food from
garbage. Black bears are already invading homes in search of food.

Unusual drought in the West and unusual flood in the East could be
coincidental or they could be consequences of weather modification
experiments.

The US, along with most of the world, already had a water problem
prior to possible disruptions of rainfall by geo-engineering. In his
book, Elixir, Brian Fagan tells the story of humankind's mostly
unsuccessful struggle with water. Both groundwater and surface water
are vanishing. The water needs of large cities, such as Los Angeles and
Phoenix, and the irrigation farming that depends on the Ogallala aquifer
are unsustainable. Fagan reminds us that "the world's supply of
freshwater is finite," just like the rest of nature's resources.
Avoiding cataclysm requires long-range thinking, but humanity is focused
on immediate needs. Long-range thinking is limited to finding another
water source to deplete. Cities and agriculture have turned eyes to the
Great Lakes.

Los Angeles exists because the city was able to steal water from
hundreds of miles away. The city drained Owens Lake, leaving a huge salt
flat in its place, drained the Owens Valley aquifer, and diverted the
Owens River to LA via aqueduct. Farming and ranching in the Owens Valley
collapsed. Today LA takes water from the Colorado River, which
originates in Wyoming and Colorado, and from Lake Perris 440 miles away.

Water depletion is not just an American problem. Fagan reports that
"underground aquifers in many places are shrinking so rapidly that NASA
satellites are detecting changes in the earth's gravity."

If the government is experimenting with weather engineering,
scientists are playing God when they have no idea of the consequences.
It is a tendency of scientists to become absorbed by the ability to
experiment and to ignore unintended consequences.

Readers have asked me to write about Fukushima and chemtrails because
they trust me to tell them the truth. The problem is that I am not
qualified to write about these matters with anything approaching the
same confidence that I bring to economic, war and police state matters.

The only advice I can give is that when you hear the presstitute
media smear a concern or explanation as "conspiracy theory," have a
closer look. The divergence between what is happening and what you are
told is so vast that it pays to be suspicious -- cynical even -- of what
"your" government and "your" presstitute media tell you. The chances
are high that it is a lie.

About Me

B.S. in Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1960 Ph.D. in Physics, Brown University, 1966. Fellow, American Physical
Society. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Fellow, American Ceramic Society. Member, Geological Society of America, Research Physicist at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC,
1967-2001. Fulbright-García Robles Fellow at Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, 1997. Invited Professor of Research at Universités
de Paris-6 & 7, Lyon-1, et St-Etienne (France) and Tokyo Institute
of Technology, 2000-2004. Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering, University of Arizona, 2004-2005. Consultancy: impactGlass
research international, 2005-present.
Winner, one national and two international research awards and honored
by Brown University with a "Distinguished Graduate School Alumnus
Award." Author, 198 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books, Principal Author of 114 of these.